U
- Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) – Criterion Collection
- Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) – Criterion Collection
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (Jacques Demy, 1964) – Criterion Collection
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
- Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2019) – Criterion Collection
- Under the Hawthorn Tree (Zhang Yimou, 2010)
- Under the Sand (Francois Ozon, 2000)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Underneath, The (Steven Soderbergh, 1995)
- Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020)
- United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
- Unknown Saint, The (Alaa Eddine Aljem, 2019)
- Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)
- Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 2018)
- Unteachable (Yong Shuling, 2019)
- Untouchables, The (Brian De Palma, 1987)
- Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, 2020)
- Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
- Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
- Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 2009)
V
- Vai (Various, 2019)
- Vanishing, The (George Sluizer, 1988) – Criterion Collection
- Varda by Agnes (Agnes Varda, 2019) – Criterion Collection
- Vengeance (Johnnie To, 2009)
- Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979) – Criterion Collection
- Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin, 2021)
- Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski, 2013)
- Veronica, La (Leonardo Medel, 2020)
- Veronika Voss (R.W. Fassbinder, 1982) – Criterion Collection
- Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Cote, 2013)
- Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) – Criterion Collection
- Vie de Jesus, La (Bruno Dumont, 1997) – Criterion Collection
- Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)
- Virgin Spring, The (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) – Crtierion Collection
- Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira, 1982)
- Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
- Viva Erotica (Derek Yee & Law Chi Leung, 1996)
- Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
- Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) – Criterion Collection
- Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006)
- Vortex (Gaspar Noe, 2021)
- Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018)
- Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick, 2016)
W
- Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
- Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, 2017)
- Walesa: Man of Hope (Andrzej Wajda, 2013)
- Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
- Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, 2010)
- Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
- Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) – Criterion Collection
- War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 2011)
- War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
- Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas, 2019)
- Wasps Are Here, The (Darmasena Pathiraja, 1978)
- Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019)
- We (Alice Diop, 2021)
- Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai, 2019)
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) – Criterion Collection
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, 2000) – Criterion Collection
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)
- Wet Season (Anthony Chen, 2019)
- Whale, The (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, 2021)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
- When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
- Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) – Criterion Collection
- While We Watched (Vinay Shukla, 2022)
- While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach, 2014)
- Whistlers, The (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2019)
- White Material (Claire Denis, 2009) – Criterion Collection
- White Ribbon, The (Michael Haneke, 2009)
- White Sheik, The (Federico Fellini, 1952) – Criterion Collection
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (R.W. Fassbinder, 1970)
- Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018)
- Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020)
- Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
- Wild Goose Lake, The (Diao Yi’nan, 2019)
- Wild Pear Tree, The (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
- Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) – Criterion Collection
- Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (Mike De Leon, 1980)
- Wind Will Carry Us, The (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
- Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966) – Criterion Collection
- Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) – Criterion Collection
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky, 2015)
- Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
- Witch, The (Robert Eggers, 2015)
- Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda, 2012)
- Wolf of Wall Street, The (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
- Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, 2020)
- Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, A (Zhang Yimou, 2009)
- Woman Is a Woman, A (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
- Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004)
- Woman Next Door, The (Francois Truffaut, 1981)
- Woman of Fire (Kim Ki-young, 1971)
- Woman Who Left, The (Lav Diaz, 2016)
- Woman Who Ran, The (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
- Woman with the Knife, The (Timite Bassori, 1969)
- Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) – Criterion Collection
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) – Criterion Collection
- Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022)
- Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
- Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, 2020)
- Wonders, The (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
- Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes, 2017)
- World’s End, The (Edgar Wright, 2013)
- Worst Person in the World, The (Joachim Trier, 2021) – Criterion Collection
- Writing with Fire (Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas, 2021)
- Wrong Man, The (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
X
Y
- Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) – Criterion Collection
- Year of No Significance, A (Kelvin Tong, 2023)
- Yella (Christian Petzold, 2007)
- Yellow Cat (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2020)
- Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky, 2018)
- You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
- Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2019)
- Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Jacques Demy, 1967) – Criterion Collection
- Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)
- Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo, 2016)
- Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963) – Criterion Collection
- Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing, 2023)
- Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)
- Yuni (Kamila Andini, 2021)
Z
- Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
- Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman – Criterion Collection
- #1: The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi, 1962)
- #2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Kazuo Mori, 1962)
- #3: New Tale of Zatoichi (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
- #4: Zatoichi the Fugitive (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
- #5: Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1963)
- #6: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
- #7: Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
- #8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (Kenji Misumi, 1964)
- #9: Adventures of Zatoichi (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1964)
- #10: Zatoichi’s Revenge (Akira Inoue, 1965)
- #11: Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (Kazuo Mori, 1965)
- #12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (Kenji Misumi, 1965)
- #13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1966)
- #14: Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1966)
- #15: Zatoichi’s Cane Sword (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1967)
- #16: Zatoichi the Outlaw (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1967)
- #17: Zatoichi Challenged (Kenji Misumi, 1967)
- #18: Zatoichi and the Fugitives (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)
- #19: Samaritan Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi, 1968)
- #20: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (Kihachi Okamoto, 1970)
- #21: Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (Kenji Misumi, 1970)
- #22: Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1971)
- #23: Zatoichi at Large (Kazuo Mori, 1972)
- #24: Zatoichi in Desperation (Shintaro Katsu, 1972)
- #25: Zatoichi’s Conspiracy (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1973)
- Zen in the Ice Rift (Margherita Ferri, 2018)
- Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980)
- Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
- Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello, 2019)
- Zone of Interest, The (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)
Eternality Tan 